A new detail is revealed for Hayao Miyazaki’s new Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (How Do You Live?) film by the Movie Natalie website on website. According to tudio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, the film will be a hand-drawn “action-adventure fantasy.”
In addition to the film’s genre revelation, a letter from Suzuki has revealed that Miyazaki’s son Goro Miyazaki is producing a new CG work. The leter relayed on how he understood the director’s return from retirement after he read the content of the film and added that Studio Ghibli will continue to make films until “the day it fails.”
The film is expected to finished in three to four year’s time according to Miyazaki. It’s title is said to be derived from writer Genzaburō Yoshino’s 1937 masterpiece of the same name. The story of the book tells of a man named Koperu and his uncle, and through Koperu’s spiritual growth, it discusses how to live as human beings. The book itself will be having a great signifance for the film’s protagonist.
It was when the “Owaranai Hito Miyazaki Hayao” a.k.a. “Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki” special was aired last November that Miyazaki reported his want to return to making an anime feature film. In the special, Miyazaki relayed his dissatisfaction with just doing “Kemushi no Boro” short for the Ghibli Museum and presented a project proposal for a feature-length film in August 2016.
Even when no agreement was made over the project, Miyazaki had already begun working on the animation. According to a report made by Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki in April, Miyazaki has been drawing the storyboards for the project since July 2016 though it was only 20 minutes of storyboard at the time.
Hayao Miyazaki is known to many as one of the greatest directing minds in the animation community. In media, he is known as a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist. During the course of his career he attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of anime feature films.
Many of his works have gained a large recognition in the animated community but, “Princess Mononoke”, “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle” are his more popular works which have reached a global recognition.
Source:AnimeNewsNetwork